Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Shall it be told him what I say? Should a man speak, or should he keep it back?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
Holman Bible
Can a man speak when he is confused?
International Standard Version
Has it been relayed to God that I want to talk? Can a person speak when he is confused?"
A Conservative Version
Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
American Standard Version
Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
Amplified
“So shall it be told Him that I wish to speak?
Or should a man say that he would be swallowed up [and destroyed by God]?
Bible in Basic English
How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?
Darby Translation
Shall it be told him if I would speak? if a man so say, surely he shall be swallowed up.
Julia Smith Translation
Shall it be recounted to him that I shall speak? If a man spake, then shall he be swallowed down.
King James 2000
Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speaks, surely he shall be swallowed up.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Should he be told that I want to speak? Or did a man say that he would be communicated with?
Modern King James verseion
Shall it be told Him that I would speak? If a man speaks, surely he shall be swallowed up.
NET Bible
Should he be informed that I want to speak? If a man speaks, surely he would be swallowed up!
New Heart English Bible
Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
The Emphasized Bible
Shall it be declared to him - that I would speak? Were any man to say aught, he might he destroyed?
Webster
Shall it be told him that I speak? If a man shall speak, surely he will be swallowed up.
World English Bible
Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
Youngs Literal Translation
Is it declared to Him that I speak? If a man hath spoken, surely he is swallowed up.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 37:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Extols God's Majesty
19 Teach us what we shall say unto him, for we are unmete because of darkness. 20 Shall it be told him what I say? Should a man speak, or should he keep it back? 21 "For every man seeth not the light, that he keepeth clear in the clouds, which he cleanseth when he maketh the wind to blow.
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Names
Cross References
Job 6:3
This is the cause, that my words are so sorrowful.
Job 11:7-8
"Wilt thou find out God with thy seeking? Wilt thou attain to the perfectness of the Almighty?
Psalm 139:4
For lo, there is not a word in my tongue, but thou, O LORD, knowest it altogether.
Matthew 12:36-37
But I say unto you, that of every idle word, that men shall have spoken, they shall give accounts at the day of judgment.